Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-15
PROFITS FROM LAND.
VIII Small Holdings Pay and Render
Support for Families?

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The Mountain Democrat, published at
Placerville, has the following: From many
sections of the State comes reports of
enormous yields of fruit trees, and re-
markable products from single tree or an
acre of ground. Ell Dorado people have
not been given to Dragging, and but little
note has been made of her large fruit
Yields. Only week or two ago we called
attention to the part Ell Dorado county
| took in shipping California fruits East,
and showed that our county was one Of
| the prominent fruit shipping counties of
the State We have as yet said little of
I; what the soil has done, or the amount re-
ceived from an acre of fruit but during
the past few weeks we have received re-
turns from several pieces of fruit land,
which go to show the productiveness of
the soil and the profits to be made from
| fruit.
Let US take, for instance. the orchard of
Mr.. Nichols at Coloma. He has, We be-
! lieve, about seven acres of land, four of
which are in fruit FROM these four acres
he this year gathered about $1,000 worth
of fruit
Another yield worthy of note is that
| received by Barney Mcbride, of Colusa.
| From a scant acre of trees he gathered
about 1000 boxes of peaches, which brought
him fifty cents per box, or $500 for his
acre of fruit.
Philip Teuscber, too, has been doing
some good work at Coloma, and on some
made ground has number Of fine peach
trees. This year six of those trees yielded
ll6 boxes of peaches, worth S58, or over
SO so per tree.
Osborne and Blundel, at Coloma. have a
small place that always paid them we'll.
They have marketed most of their fruit
this year, and have done we'll. Parties in
from Coloma this week inform US that the
firm has number of japanese persimmon
| trees that show immense crops, estimated
to bring not less than SO per tree for the
poorest trees. The eight or ten trees in
their place are calculated to Weld $3.50
worth of fruit.
q. W. Ramsey, of Lotus, is one of the
old residents of that vicinity who has
made money there by fruit-raising. Owing
to the frost this year he has gathered less
than thousand boxes of fruit, where he
should have had many thousands. If we
rememember Alright, Mr. Ramsey has about
35 acres in fruit. Last spring parties we're
soicitous for Mr.. Ramsey to put figure
upon his ranch to sell He did not desire
to sell, but when pushed for an answer
said that his property was paying him u
per cent. interest upon $4,000, and he
would take that and nothing less for his
place.
We know of one Bartlett pear tree in
this city that last year yielded ST. so
| worth of pears, and a number of others
that brought from $40 to S12
But We need not take isolated yields
upon ranches for a criterion. There are
abundant examples of what whole ranches
can do The latest instance brought to
our notice is that Of II. Tinney, at Granite
Hill. Last spring he pretended 10 be dis
gusted with the business, and said he would
take $4,000 for his property. His fruit
crop from the place this year will bring
him in S2,200-a handsome return for
property valued at even as high as $4,000.
We could thus go on and enumerate
many instances of big yields. which show
| what care and cultivation can do in fruit
raising, and that labor bestowed upon fruit
trees has 4 speedy and enormous reward.
We fail to know of Woodworking, thrifty
and enterprising fruit-raiser who is not
| doing well And there is room in this
| county for vast number of them.